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[Anne Gentle <anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

I've added a doc review for a glossary at
https://review.openstack.org/#change,5847. It came from the Repose
project, and is Apache 2 licensed, so I guess it makes sense to edit
and bring it into the OpenStack umbrella.

I haven't yet added zones or availability zones to the glossary, nor
have I incorporated it further into a guide. There is also a method to
have definitions as pop-ups within other pages. These would be "next
steps" for glossary work. Hint: glossary work is not my favorite so
anyone can be owner of this. :)

I'd like review for the current definitions as well as suggestions for
additions (and definitions) before investing more effort into
incorporation, so feel free to take a look and give feedback.

Thanks,
Anne

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> It would be useful if there was a glossary of terms related to Openstack. It
> is easy to get confused as many words are overloaded or slightly different
> between different parts of Openstack.
>
>
>
> There is also the page on identity at
> http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-identity/admin/content/Identity-Service-Concepts-e1362.html
> which defines some concepts.
>
>
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> From http://wiki.openstack.org/Glossary, there is a pointer to
> http://cloudglossary.com/ but the openstack terms are not in there.
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> There is also
> http://docs.openstack.org/incubation/openstack-network/developer/quantum-api-1.0/content/Glossary.html
> for networking.
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>
> Tim
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> From: openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Sandy Walsh
> Sent: 20 March 2012 12:07
> To: Nicolae Paladi; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] "nova zone" and "availability_zone"
>
>
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> Availability Zone is an EC2 concept. Zones were a sharding scheme for Nova.
> Zones are being renamed to Cells to avoid further confusion. Availability
> Zones will remain the same.
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> Hope it helps!
>
> -S
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf
> of Nicolae Paladi [n.paladi@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:55 AM
> To: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Openstack] "nova zone" and "availability_zone"
>
> Hi all,
>
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> What is the difference between "nova zone(s)" and "availability_zone"?
>
> In a new deployment, the *services* table in the nova db contains an
> "availability_zone"
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> column (which is 'nova', but default).
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> If that is not the same as "nova zones"  (which are logical deployments, as
> far as I understood), where is information
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> about zones stored?
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> The only documentation about "zones" in openstack that I could find is here:
>
> http://nova.openstack.org/devref/zone.html
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> is there anything on availability zones?
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> Cheers,
>
> /Nicolae.
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